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“I don't know many people in the world, and certainly none of the clients that I've ever worked with, who would say that, ‘all of a sudden, I can start making several hundred-dollar payments that I didn't have to make the month before,’” Yu says. “It’s a big issue for...

“The logical remedy for the harm that they said they suffered would be to expand the program, but that’s not what they’re asking for,” Yu said. “They’re asking for it to be completely invalidated for no one to get relief, and I think that’s how this is not genuinely about...

"For too long the student debt crisis has exacerbated racial and economic inequality," organizers argue on the Campaign to Cancel My Student Debt website, managed by the Student Borrower Protection Center. "Working people are looking to SCOTUS to follow the letter of the law and uphold critical relief for millions...

Many of these organizations filed amicus curiae briefs with the Supreme Court last month, urging the justices to uphold the Biden initiative. “The briefs represent the breadth of communities that stand to benefit from student debt relief, including working people, borrowers of color, veterans, older people, people of faith, along...

Lubin said that his organization alone is planning to bring out around 100 college students from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — all swing states — to the Supreme Court to participate in a rally led by a coalition of groups, including the Student Borrower Protection Center, NAACP, Student...

In January, the advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center sent a letter urging the Education Department to reconsider excluding time in default from the account adjustment, saying “failure to fully remedy these harms would be an unforced error.”

Included in those briefs was one from 128 House Republicans voicing opposition to Biden's plan. Alongside the new data from the Education Department, an analysis from advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center found that nearly 12 million borrowers in all of those lawmakers' districts would stand to benefit from the...

Increasing the discretionary income cutoff to 225% is also a step in the right direction. Persis Yu of the Student Borrower Protection Center said the cutoff would ideally be 400%, but the proposal gets closer to the 250-300% most borrowers need to sustain a living wage.

Across the districts represented by the 128 Members of Congress who urged the Supreme Court to block student debt relief, more than 7.5 million people applied to have their student debt cancelled, and more than 4.5 million have been approved.

Over the past few weeks, 128 House Republican lawmakers filed an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments on February 28 urging it to strike down Biden's debt relief. An analysis of the new data from advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) shows that nearly...